Isaiah 66:7

Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.

Related Commentaries of Isaiah 66:7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Before she travailed, she brought forth - That is, Zion. The idea here is, that there would be a great and sudden increase of her numbers. Zion i...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

Before (h) she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a male child. (h) Meaning, that the restoration of the churc...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 66. Here divisions are hard to define. The theme the coming punishment of the apostates and the coming glory of the pious is pursued now on...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

she brought forth. This is the birth of the new nation. These are the "birth pangs" (or "sorrows") of Matthew 24:8 . In Revelation 12:1 ; Revela...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

7. Before she travailed, she brought forth. Having formerly comforted believers, that they might not be discouraged by the insolence and con...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Before she travailed, &c.— Another consolatory argument is here urged, to those who reverence the word of Jehovah, who form the true Sion,...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child. She - Zion. Before she travailed, she brought...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1. Where , etc.] RV 'what manner of house.. what place shall be my rest.' The v. is a strong rebuke of such as, without a really religious spirit,...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Before she travailed... — The mother, as the next verse shows, is Zion; the man-child, born at last without the travail-pangs of sorrow, is the new...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER XXV A LAST INTERCESSION AND THE JUDGMENT Isaiah 63:7 through Isaiah 66:1-24 WE might well have thought, that with the section we hav...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

God's People Made a Blessing Isaiah 66:1-14 The prophet forecasts the advent of a new day, when places and rites would be comparatively unimpor...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

This last chapter is confessedly difficult of interpretation. In it the prophet seems to look beyond all that he has previously described, and to dea...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Perhaps the voice here spoken of, means the voice of the gospel: and the effects of it follow. Quick was the success, when the Holy Ghost came upon t...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Before she travailed, she brought forth ,.... That is, Zion, as appears from the following verse: lest it should be thought that the interest of Chr...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child. Ver. 7. Before she travailed, she brought forth....
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Here begins a new paragraph of the prophet's discourse, containing a description of the sudden and great increase of the Christian Church, upon God's...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Encouragement to the Persecuted; The Enlargement of the Church. B. C. 706....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The whole verse is expressive of a great and sudden salvation, which God would work for his church, like the delivery of a woman, and that of a man...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Yahweh Comforts Those Who Fear Him Truly In The Face Of Their Treatment By The Formalists. He Tells Them A New Day Is Coming, A Day Of Great Change...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Birth Of The New Age ( Isaiah 66:6-9 ). Isaiah 66:6 ‘A voice of tumult from the city, A voice from the temple, A voice of Yahweh, Which...
Scofield Reference Notes

travailed ( Isaiah 66:7 ); ( Isaiah 66:8 ). ( See Scofield) - ( Micah 5:1 ).
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 66:1 . The heaven is my throne. This chapter applies to Isaiah's time, as well as to future times; and though the Lord rejected the impure...
The Biblical Illustrator

Before she travailed, she brought forth The new Israel The predictive message of our prophet is now so far advanced that the future promised is...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

SECTION XII .— FINAL THREATENINGS AND PROMISES ( Isaiah 66:1-23 .). EXPOSITION Isaiah 66:1-23 THE UNGODLY EXILES REBUKED...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Abominations of a Dead Worship and The Birth of the New Church
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Before she, Zion, the bride, the Church of the Lord, travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Galatians 4:26 ; Isaiah 54:1 ; Revelation 12:1-5
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Before — The whole verse is expressive of a great and sudden salvation, which God would work for his church, like the delivery of a woman, and that...

⁷ Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.

Related Commentaries of Isaiah 66:7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Scofield Reference Notes

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Isaiah 66:7